Why does my MacOS no longer use the keychain for SVN credentials?

Question

Problem description

I used to be able to update my svn repositories via the command line simply by typing:

$ svn up

I believe that username was taken from ~/.subversion/auth and the password was taken from the keychain. I checked and this information is still there. However, since recently SVN started to prompt me for the password:

$ svn up Updating '.': Authentication realm: <https://svn.domain.com:443> Subversion repository Password for 'username': ***

In addition, it would then tell me:

ATTENTION! Your password for authentication realm [...] can only be stored to disk unencrypted! You are advised to configure your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if possible. See the documentation for details.

I tried setting password-stores = keychain in ~/.subversion/config but this did not help.

Question

Does anybody know what's going on here? How can I configure my SVN so that it uses the keychain again?

I should note that I have installed SVN via homebrew. The currently installed version is 1.9.4. I believe it was upgraded only recently, so this might have to do something with it. Besides that, I am running macOS 10.13.1.

Answer 1

Just deleting it from keychain worked for me FYI. Future visitors may try that first before deleting ~/.subversion/

Answer 2

I had the same issue, I solved it by deleting my ~/.subversionfolder AND the passwords stored in my KeyChain for the domain svn.domain.com

Hope this helps.